What's on My Kitchen Counter

Some of my crafty friends/family thought we would celebrate the August birthdays with some High Tea this past weekend.  Of course, we live in Alabama so it is probably a lot more Alabama High Tea than English High Tea, but it was lovely, delicious, and super fun.  Even my Uncle  sat with us and asked when we could do it again.  High compliment for sure.  We had scones and marmalade, passion fruit lemonde tea, chicken salad mini-croisants, pimento cheese mini-sandwiches, cucumber circles, fruit, mini lemon cheesecakes, and  candied figs on crackers with cream cheese.  Key lime cake was our nod to the birthdays nnd was made with fresh limes (it was yummy).  This is my ticket to the T-day Party over at Elizabeth's blog where she is sharing an invitation she received to a more traditional High Tea.  I wasn't super productive this last week as I was still mending from the strep throat and ear infections, but I did get a bit of art done. The art w...

It is T-day over at Elizabeth's Blog so here I am sharing a recent drink.  This is my hot tea at the local Japanese Habachi Restaurant where we celebrated my oldest Grandson turning 8.  This was actually his 3rd or 4th get-together for his birthday.  If he wasn't such an wonderful kid, he would be horribly obnoxious with all the spoiling he gets. It was his third or fourth cake too.  I ordered Oolong as I was kind of feeling a little under the weather and thought it might help.  It did.  We had a wonderful time.  I ended up coming down with strep throat and a double ear infection so last week was a lot of laying on the couch for me.  I did bnge watched some Harry Potter and all the episodes of 1883.  Elsa may be one of my favorite characters of all time. I hope there really were young women with that open of a heart and that strong a spirit. I could listen to that actress read her thoughful words all day long.   I did feel a tiny b...

It is Anything Goes over at the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge with the option of Funny.  Don't you love this Vintage Eat Your Cake and Nap Too? I colored up the yummy cake and cute mouse with Daniel Smith Watercolors and a bit of Gold Stickles.  Then I fussy cut the image and popped it up on this printed background lightly sponged with Rusty Hinge Disress Ink.   Then...I was craving cake so much I made some. LOL.

Happy T-day!  Especially to the T-day gang over at Elizabeth's Blog where we all share a drink related picture/post.  I am starting this post off with one of my last drinks on our Georgia trip.  This picture was taken in the Airbnb we stayed near Savannah.  It was on hte Isle of Hope and it was right across the street from Wormsloe Plantation (seriously - we could just walk over to it and could see it out our windows.  The tree lined streets were amazing!  My drink is a vanilla porter from Breckenridge Brewery out of Colorado.  I was hoping for a good local one, but they didn't have any that I knew I would love AND I knew I would love this one.  It was wonderful.  Have you ever had it Erika? I looked up the brewery and I would love to go there.  I especially wanted to go there after seeing their website which is VERY fun.  I espeically liked this ad for a  fun event they sponsor.  What a cool name - I think is a band but ...

 Happy Monday/Tuesday!  It is Tuesday somewhere so were posting our drink related posts and linking up over at Elizabeth's blog.  Elizabeth is still celebrating her 10 years of  T-day which is quite a feat!   I am posting my drink first in case you want to skip the rest of this post which is heavily ladden with Harry Potter (I know some of you are not fans).  During our Geogia trip I wanted to try a few lobster rolls.  When were were in Duluth, we found Steami's Lobster which was rated on the list of lobster rolls to try around Atlanta.  I know this looks nothing like Erika's rolls from Pop's, but I wanted to try it anyway. The beer was perfect with the lobster roll.  I liked the lobster roll - I would give it a 7 out of 10. The roll part was very strange...I couldn't decide if it was supposed to be a rectangular hot dog bun or french bread.  The lobster was wonderful, but the bread part didn't score high with me.  Hubby had ...

Hello friends. A few weeks ago, hubby and I set off on one of our nothing really planned vacations.  We had so much fun doing it last year touring around Tennessee and Kentucky.  This year we tackled Georgia.  We knew we wanted to do the top of the state and Savannah plus find at least one lobster roll (we did), but that was the extent of our plans.  Our route took us through the top of Alabama.  On our way, we stopped in Birmingham, Alabama for breakfast.   I quickly googled best breakfast and found the Ruby Slipper/Ruby Sunshine Restaurant.    This was my coffee and my ticket to Elizabeth's T-day Linky party .   I ordered the Trifecta so I could try several of their eggs benedict. THE TRIFECTA* “Taste of Ruby" featuring our signature Benedicts: Eggs Cochon, Chicken St. Charles and Bayou Shrimp  The shrimp one was my favorite.  Hubby had biscuits and gravy. I loved mine, but he wasn't impressed.  Right next to our ta...

I had to do a card today so I could squeek into the House Mouse & Friend's Monday Challenge (it is over today).  It is one of my favorite challenges, and I didn't want to miss it.  Karin's challege is Anything Goes with a dessert option of Circles. I used a circle on the top layer of this easel card, a half circle on the bottom panel, and lots of circles in the flower centers, and the magic glitter dots. All dies are Spellbinders. Everything is watercolored with Daniel Smith Watercolors.  The bunny bee I used is from the Buzzy Friends Hop-it Bumble House Mouse image.  I fussy cut the image, and set it in front of the bee hive (CTMH Bee's Knees set and so is the sentiment).  Just for fun, I added in some bitzy bees from DRS Designs.  I went with bees because I was inspired by  THESE fun earrings.  Another fun challenge! Hugz, Nancy